Instead of a subscription

Self-hosted alternatives to Yandex Smart Home

Yandex's smart-home platform connects devices to its assistant and cloud. A local hub keeps automations and device control inside the house, where they keep working without an account.

The hub comes free with the speaker, so there is nothing to compare here: the subscription sold beside it is music, which the catalog answers on a page of its own.

1 applicationFilter the catalog by Yandex Smart Home

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Recipes that cover it

Fully verified90,199

Smart home

Home Assistant

A smart home hub that runs without vendor clouds

1024 MB RAMamd64 / arm64Python / TypeScriptMediumApache-2.0Version 2026.10.4

Alternative to: Google Home, Amazon Alexa, SmartThings, Yandex Smart Home

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Requirements

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Requirements and recipe status of the applications on this page
Application	Minimum RAM	Disk estimate	Database	Installation difficulty	Backup	Recipe verification	License
Home Assistant	1024 MB RAM	8 GB	SQLite	Medium	Yes · Restore tested	Fully verifiedCheck is current	Apache-2.0

Migration

What changes when you host it yourself

The data stops leaving your network, and so does the responsibility for it: backups, the restore you have actually tested, and the disk it all sits on.

Feature parity is never exact. Read what each recipe states about limitations and the smoke test before planning a migration.

The bill turns into work: updates, certificates and an eye on the release notes. The catalog shows how much of that each recipe asks for.

Guides with these applications

Services that never need a public addressKeep household services behind loopback, a private network or a VPN. Private access still needs application authentication, safe initialization and backups.